Dressing down: the new dressing up

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Last weekend was sunny enough to dip a toe into any of the new season’s more
daring, flesh-baring trends without having to “shoulder-robe” a jacket for
warmth. But as Vogue Festival, the two-day fashion extravaganza held at the
Southbank Centre in London, proved all too readily: dressing down really is
the new dressing up.

Confirming the claim in a recent Harvard Business School report that
“deliberately dressing down boosts the wearer’s status in the eyes of those
around them” — presumably because the wearer is too wealthy to need to try
hard or too up on the season’s trends to follow